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The term "Name Brand by Maya Angelou" has been searched for 80 times on the American Poems site since October 11th, 2005.
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1. Maya - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 7159 times on American Poems.
Through an ascending emptiness of night,
Leaving the flesh and complacent mind
Together in their suffciency behind,
The soul of man went up to a far height;
And where those others would have had no sight
Or sense of else than terror for the... (Read full poem)
2. Are You the New person, drawn toward Me? - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 6708 times on American Poems.
ARE you the new person drawn toward me?
To begin with, take warning—I am surely far different from what you suppose;
Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?
Do you think the... (Read full poem)
3. Poem For Maya - written by Carolyn Forché
From The Country Between Us.
Published in 1981.
Read 2014 times on American Poems.
Dipping our bread in oil tins
we talked of morning peeling
open our rooms to a moment
of almonds, olives and wind
when we did not yet know what we were.
The days in Mallorca were alike:
footprints down goat-paths
from the beds we had... (Read full poem)
4. she being Brand... (XIX) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 30412 times on American Poems.
she being Brand
-new;and you
know consequently a
little stiff i was
careful of her and(having
thoroughly oiled the universal
joint tested my gas felt of
her radiator made sure her springs were O.
K.)i went right to it... (Read full poem)
5. Exhilaration -- is within - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1863 times on American Poems.
Exhilaration -- is within --
There can no Outer Wine
So royally intoxicate
As that diviner Brand
The Soul achieves -- Herself --
To drink -- or set away
For Visitor -- Or Sacrament --
'Tis not of Holiday
To stimulate a Man
Who hath the Ample... (Read full poem)
6. A St. Valentine’s Day Tragedy - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From Leslie’s Monthly.
Published in 1903.
Read 343 times on American Poems.
Oh! Montmorency Vere de Vere,
To think that one I held so dear
Should use a base deceiver’s art
To trifle with my loving heart.
A brand new ten-cent valentine
With lace and hearts and verses fine,
I sent to show my love for thee
And in... (Read full poem)
7. Color -- Caste -- Denomination -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2897 times on American Poems.
Color -- Caste -- Denomination --
These -- are Time's Affair --
Death's diviner Classifying
Does not know they are --
As in sleep -- All Hue forgotten --
Tenets -- put behind --
Death's large -- Democratic fingers
Rub away the Brand --
If... (Read full poem)
8. The Outer -- from the Inner - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1527 times on American Poems.
The Outer -- from the Inner
Derives its Magnitude --
'Tis Duke, or Dwarf, according
As is the Central Mood --
The fine -- unvarying Axis
That regulates the Wheel --
Though Spokes -- spin -- more conspicuous
And fling a dust -- the while.
The Inner... (Read full poem)
9. To put this World down, like a Bundle -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1263 times on American Poems.
To put this World down, like a Bundle --
And walk steady, away,
Requires Energy -- possibly Agony --
'Tis the Scarlet way
Trodden with straight renunciation
By the Son of God --
Later, his faint Confederates
Justify the Road --
Flavors of that old... (Read full poem)
10. Strumpet Song - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1956.
Read 1910 times on American Poems.
With white frost gone
And all green dreams not worth much,
After a lean day's work
Time comes round for that foul slut:
Mere bruit of her takes our street
Until every man,
Red, pale or dark,
Veers to her slouch.
Mark, I cry, that mouth
Made to do... (Read full poem)
11. Landing - written by Eleanor Wilner
From Maya.
Published in 1979.
Read 839 times on American Poems.
It was a pure white cloud that hung there
in the blue, or a jellyfish on a waveless
sea, suspended high above us; we were
the creatures in the weeds below.
It seemed so effortless in its suspense,
perfectly out of time and out of place
like the... (Read full poem)
12. Young - written by Anne Sexton
From All My Pretty Ones.
Published in 1962.
Read 12783 times on American Poems.
A thousand doors ago
when I was a lonely kid
in a big house with four
garages and it was summer
as long as I could remember,
I lay on the lawn at night,
clover wrinkling over me,
the wise stars bedding over me,
my mother's window a funnel
of yellow... (Read full poem)
13. W. Lloyd Garrison Standard - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 368 times on American Poems.
Vegetarian, non-resistant, free-thinker, in ethics a Christian;
Orator apt at the rhine-stone rhythm of Ingersoll.
Carnivorous, avenger, believer and pagan.
Continent, promiscuous, changeable, treacherous, vain,
Proud, with the pride that makes... (Read full poem)
14. The Breast - written by Anne Sexton
Read 4996 times on American Poems.
This is the key to it.
This is the key to everything.
Preciously.
I am worse than the gamekeeper's children
picking for dust and bread.
Here I am drumming up perfume.
Let me go down on your carpet,
your straw mattress -- whatever's at hand
because... (Read full poem)
15. THE SLAVE IN THE DISMAL SWAMP - written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From Poems on Slavery.
Read 3937 times on American Poems.
In dark fens of the Dismal Swamp
The hunted Negro lay;
He saw the fire of the midnight camp,
And heard at times a horse's tramp
And a bloodhound's distant bay.
Where will-o'-the-wisps and glow-worms shine,
In bulrush and in brake;
Where waving... (Read full poem)
16. Hallelujah: A Sestina - written by Robert Francis
Read 567 times on American Poems.
A wind's word, the Hebrew Hallelujah.
I wonder they never gave it to a boy
(Hal for short) boy with wind-wild hair.
It means Praise God, as well it should since praise
Is what God's for. Why didn't they call my father
Hallelujah instead of... (Read full poem)
17. Leffingwell - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 359 times on American Poems.
I—THE LURE
No, no,—forget your Cricket and your Ant,
For I shall never set my name to theirs
That now bespeak the very sons and heirs
Incarnate of Queen Gossip and King Cant.
The case of Leffingwell is mixed, I grant,
And futile Seems... (Read full poem)
18. September On Jessore Road - written by Allen Ginsberg
From The Fall of America.
Published in 1971.
Read 6989 times on American Poems.
Millions of babies watching the skies
Bellies swollen, with big round eyes
On Jessore Road--long bamboo huts
Noplace to shit but sand channel ruts
Millions of fathers in rain
Millions of mothers in pain
Millions of brothers in woe
Millions of... (Read full poem)
19. Says Mister Doojabs - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From New York Times.
Published in 1902.
Read 275 times on American Poems.
Well, eight months ago one clear cold day,
I took a ramble up Broadway,
And with my hands behind my back
I strolled along on the streetcar track—
(I walked on the track, for walking there
Gives one, I think, a distinguished air.)
“Well, all... (Read full poem)
20. Sex Goddess - written by Maggie Estep
Read 1818 times on American Poems.
I am THE SEX GODDESS OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
so don't mess with me
I've got a big bag full of SEX TOYS
and you can't have any
'cause they're all mine
'cause I'm
the SEX GODDESS OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.
"Hey," you may say to... (Read full poem)
21. All Distance - written by Erin Belieu
Read 864 times on American Poems.
Writing from Boston, where sky is simply
property, a flourish topping crowds
of condos and historic real estate,
I'm trying to imagine blue sky:
the first time, where it happened,
what I was becoming. Being taken there
by car, from a town so... (Read full poem)
22. Studio Composition - written by Joseph Mayo Wristen
From There is a Dead Man Living in my Kitchen.
Published in 2004.
Read 950 times on American Poems.
Cup of Words
Crystal sphere sitting
Before child like statue
Words of Lennon mixed
In a clay Klee fish bowl
Like a dog in a manger
Caravan of gypsies
Traveling from city to city
Verse of reconciliation a
Prophet’s candle burning
Under... (Read full poem)
23. A Curse for Kings - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 771 times on American Poems.
A curse upon each king who leads his state,
No matter what his plea, to this foul game,
And may it end his wicked dynasty,
And may he die in exile and black shame.
If there is vengeance in the Heaven of Heavens,
What punishment could Heaven... (Read full poem)
24. The White Ships and the Red - written by Joyce Kilmer
From Main Street and Other Poems.
Published in 1917.
Read 1594 times on American Poems.
(For Alden March)
With drooping sail and pennant
That never a wind may reach,
They float in sunless waters
Beside a sunless beach.
Their mighty masts and funnels
Are white as driven snow,
And with a pallid radiance
Their ghostly bulwarks... (Read full poem)
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